2016 BMGA Women's Strokeplay Order of Merit published following the Welsh Open

The updated Strokeplay Order Of Merit for our Women Players has been released following the Welsh Open, held in Cardiff on 16th October.

Please note: An overview of how the system works can be found at the foot of this post and the full order of merit can be found here

Pos

Name

Total

1

Ruth BURKE

8,498

2

Marion HOMER

5,810

3

Cindy KUKIELKA

3,040

4

Marion HARTLEY

2,925

5

Brenda SMITH

2,106

6

Emma ROGERS

2,047

7

Jessica PILGRIM

1,764

8

Helen DODD

1,764

9

Louise ELLIS

1,536

10

Emily GOTTFRIED

1,462

11

Sophie NEWTON

1,334

12

Natasha MORGAN

1,163

13

Alicia PARRIS

938

14

Kate HAYNES

250

15

Tina TETLEY

188

16

Sophia CUNHA

156

17

Liz GOMM

144

T18

Terri JACOB

50

T18

Marion BURNS

50

T18

Kerry WEST

50

T18

Elsa COSTA

50

2016 ORDER OF MERIT INFORMATION

1. All strokeplay ranking tournaments on the BMGA tour are to be treated equally. No special treatment for the Majors, National Opens or British Masters.

2. Every player who finishes a tournament scores a minimum of 50 points.

3. The maximum number of points available for each event is decided by the number of current top 16 players competing and their respective position in the rankings. The higher a player is ranked, the more points that a player carries into the tournament:

Number 1 ranked player = 200

Number 2 ranked player =190

Number 3 ranked player =180

Number 4 ranked player =170

Number 5 ranked player =160

Number 6 ranked player =150

Number 7 ranked player =140

Number 8 ranked player =130

Number 9 ranked player =120

Number 10 ranked player =110

Number 11 ranked player =100

Number 12 ranked player =90

Number 13 ranked player =80

Number 14 ranked player =70

Number 15 ranked player =60

Number 16 ranked player =50

Maximum number of points available if all the top 16 compete =2000

4. The winner of the tournament/leader after the qualifying rounds receives the maximum number of points available in an event. The number of points scored by all other players is dependent on the exact number of shots they finishes behind the champion:

In other words, a player loses 100 points for every shot that their average is behind the champion’s average. If the champion averages 33.0 shots per round (or scores 99 total shots in a 3 round tournament), then a player who scores a 34.0 average (102 total shots in a 3 round tournament) will score 100 points fewer than the champion.

5. All decimal points are rounded up or down. So if a player scored 427.1 points in a tournament, it would be counted as 427 points. if a player scored 427.5 points in a tournament, it would be counted as 428 points.

6. 10 tournaments over a 2 year period count towards a player’s total number of ranking points. The points scored from their 5 best tournament from Year 1 are halved then rounded up/down accordingly, and added to their best 5 tournaments from Year 2 to create their total number of ranking points over a 2 year period.